Sascha is recalled to Moscow because his supervisors are not pleased with his production.
Sascha and Khristo are assigned to work with a man named Andres in Spain, who is feeding information to the Soviets regarding several anarchist groups in Madrid.
When Khristo is sent into the field, his partner is Sascha. Khristo realizes through a series of events at the school that he is irrevocably trapped as a Soviet agent, and that he cannot go home again, cannot trust anyone, and cannot ever escape. The men become cold and jaded through their experiences, but feel a bond towards each other. These men are trained in espionage and counterintelligence and are manipulated by their teachers in cruel and horrifying ways. Khristo's comrades are Kulic, Voluta, and Goldman. The men form a bond, naming themselves BF 825, which refers to a training exercise where their unit, 8, should have been named the winner. Soon afterwards, Khristo decides to leave the village where he was born and travels to Moscow with Antipin, a Soviet espionage agent and recruiter.Īt the school, Khristo is placed in a unit with several other agents. Khristo is nineteen years old and living in Vidin Bulgaria when his brother is kicked to death by a local fascist militia. The story centers on the main character, Khristo Stoianev. Night Soldiers, by Alan Furst, is the fictional story of a group of Soviet trained spies who attend espionage training in Moscow, form a secret bond signified by BF 825, then follows their lives from pre-World War II to the months immediately after the war's end.
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